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Hamilton, Hugh Douglas
(b Dublin, c. 1740; d Dublin, 10 Feb 1808). Irish painter, active in England and Italy. He trained under Robert West at the Dublin Society’s Drawing School, after which he moved to London in the early 1760s. There his skilfully executed pastel portraits attracted a large number of commissions from Irish and English sitters. Among his portraits of the royal family is that of Queen Charlotte (1769; Berlin, Kupferstichkab.); many others are in the British Royal Collection. In 1779 Hamilton travelled to Italy, where he soon attracted an impressive array of British patrons. These included George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (examples at Althorp House, Northants); Lady Hannah Cowper, for whom he made an oval portrait in pastel: Countess Cowper (c. 1787; Firle Place, E. Sussex); and the exiled Stuart royal family, for example the portraits in oil of Charles Edward Stuart (c. 1785; Dundee, Cent. Mus. and A.G.; Edinburgh, N.P.G.).
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